It’s here! Well, at least at my house. The major online booksellers still have it listed as a pre-order, but I suspect that could change at any time.
It looks great and I am utterly, totally excited about the fact that the book is printed on 100% post consumer recycled paper. How’s THAT?
I got the final review copy of my medieval book today. Oddly, it’s not a set of paper galleys like I’m used to. This time, it’s an electronic version. I can review the layout and double (triple!) check for errors right on the computer. It’s a little odd to be making notes on the computer, rather than with my trusty highlighter. I suppose it was bound to happen sooner or later, though.
As expected, it’s looking good. The graphics are wonderful. In another month or so it will be a real book! Not bad for a project I started back in early 2006, eh?
Curious to know what book edits look like? You can take a look at my edits for the first half of the book under the cut. You’ll see that I’m catching missed commas, redundancies, and other minor errors. Whose fault is this? Hard to say. The manuscript at this point has gone through many hands. I could have made errors in my original document, my editors (several) could have made errors as they reviewed and rearranged the copy, and errors could have been made during the layout stage as the text was copied and pasted. We just hope that we catch all of the errors in this final read through!
